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Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers Support Colleague Who Molested Boy

Posted on | August 24, 2013 | 518 Comments

Former middle-school teacher Neal Erickson, 38, pleaded guilty in May to having sex with a boy beginning in 2006 — when the boy was a 14-year-old eighth-grader — until 2009. His fellow teachers in Ogemaw County, Michigan, supported Erickson, writing letters to the judge asking for a lenient sentence. Any parent would be horrified by the sentiments expressed, for example, by Rose City teacher Sally Campbell:

“Neal made a mistake. He allowed a mutual friendship to develop into much more. He realized his mistake and ended it years before someone anonymously sent something to the authorities which began this legal process. . . . Please also consider that this was a one-time relationship with only one student and ended long before being found out. Both parties have gone on with their lives.”

He molested a 14-year-old boy, ma’am. To call this “a one-time relationship” — words fail. A relationship? A middle-school teacher and a 14-year-old boy in a “relationship”? Are you insane?

The parents of the victim in this case were outraged to see Erickson’s fellow teachers supporting this confessed criminal pervert, whose molestation of their son caused horrible problems:

The victim’s mother also spoke prior to sentencing, telling Erickson he violated her son and caused a rift in the family. She said the family appeared happy on the outside, but on the inside, the home was a “battle zone.”
“We couldn’t figure out why (the victim) hated us,” she said. “He went after his father. There were physical fights.” . . .
“You were his teacher,” she said. “You were his mentor. You were his friend. And you violated him.”
She added the victim kept the sexual encounters a secret and suffered because of it.
“He kept all of this a secret, and he went through emotional pains,” she said.

Permit me to digress: Do you think there might be . . . oh, I don’t know, an agenda involved here? Do you think Neal Erickson’s fellow teachers would have supported him like this if he had carried on a secret three-year sexual affair with an underaged girl? I think not.

Because it was a gay thing, see, Neal Erickson has “rights,” just like Kaitlyn Hunt has a “right” to have lesbian sex with a 14-year-old.

Nobody in the gay-rights movement or the educational establishment wants to admit that this is what is going on, that they are making excuses for gay people to have sex with minors, but that’s what it’s really about. It’s a good thing Neal Erickson isn’t a Catholic priest, or else this might be an actual scandal. But I digress . . .

Thank God, Circuit Court Judge Michael Baumgartner disregarded the pleas for leniency and imposed a 15-30-year sentence:

After making a decision on the sentencing, Baumgartner said he could not believe people were supporting Erickson after the issue came to light.
“I’m appalled and ashamed that the community could rally around, in this case, you,” he said.
“What you did was a jab in the eye with a sharp stick to every parent who trusts a teacher,” Baumgartner added.

 The family of the victim has demanded that the teachers who supported criminal pervert Neal Erickson be fired, and have begun a petition drive to recall school board members who supported the criminal pervert. And guess what happened next?

A garage fire at John and Lori Janczewski’s house on Grandjean Road near Rose City destroyed the couple’s garage and melted the siding on their home early Saturday morning.
Lt. Melvin Matthews, post commander for the Michigan State Police Post in West Branch, said the fire is being ruled as arson. He said evidence gathered at the scene is being analyzed by the MSP crime lab, and new leads gathered since the incident occurred are being investigated.
The Janczewskis believe it was someone responding to their outspokenness against several West Branch-Rose City teachers and a board member, who they said publicly supported Neal Erickson, a former WB-RC teacher who recently pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct against the Janczewski’s son. . . .
John Janczewski said he doesn’t understand why someone would do something like this to his family.
“We don’t deserve this,” he said in tears. “We’re not a bad family. We’ve done nothing but stand up for our son, the victim. They could have killed my whole family. Whoever’s done this has no remorse. They have no soul.”
John Janczewski said he and his wife do not plan to stop. They are currently circulating petitions for the recall of WB-RC board member Mike Eagan.
“Whoever’s done this, we’re not going to quit,” he said. “We’re not giving up. We’re going to continue to fight, until the end.”

School teachers who are insane enough to support a criminal pervert are insane enough to commit any crime themselves.

Erica Ritz told the Janszewski family’s story Monday at The Blaze.

It’s time to wake up, America: Our country is now so close to the gates of Hell you can feel the heat and smell the brimstone.

 

 


Category: Crime, Education, Gays, Michigan, Sex

Comments

518 Responses to “Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers Support Colleague Who Molested Boy”

  1. rmnixondeceased
    August 25th, 2013 @ 7:51 pm

    Cogito ergo sum

  2. rmnixondeceased
    August 25th, 2013 @ 7:53 pm

    Exactly.

  3. rmnixondeceased
    August 25th, 2013 @ 7:55 pm

    Besides, they’re fun to poke with (rhetorical) sticks …

  4. rmnixondeceased
    August 25th, 2013 @ 7:56 pm

    Heh. Spot on!

  5. La Pucelle
    August 25th, 2013 @ 9:18 pm

    It’s an (admittedly) guilty pleasure of mine. Kids these days…when I was her age, I was burned at the stake for spiritually leading a country. It’s as if they have no real, actual purpose in spite of the need to feel “important”. Mon dieu.

  6. RealityD
    August 26th, 2013 @ 8:55 am

    Well, you can’t expect a whole lot of reason from a person whose online persona is an Emoticon…

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    August 26th, 2013 @ 5:42 pm

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  9. bet0001970
    August 26th, 2013 @ 8:42 pm

    Which is exactly why she needs to get smacked around by people who are traveled, weathered, smarter and battled worn.

  10. bet0001970
    August 26th, 2013 @ 8:48 pm

    I’m pretty sure I mentioned earlier how “progressives were a cult”.

  11. La Pucelle
    August 26th, 2013 @ 9:19 pm

    You did, I’m just agreeing. I just find it amusing that the arguments come down to “My blind faith is better than yours!”

  12. La Pucelle
    August 26th, 2013 @ 9:20 pm

    Yep. I use my snark for the kids but my vitriol is saved for subhumans like Kelley Hunt.

  13. bet0001970
    August 26th, 2013 @ 9:23 pm

    Oh, I absolutely find your assessment of “Snowflake”…dead on. I was merely, “second-ing” your statement. (that’s not a real word)

  14. bet0001970
    August 26th, 2013 @ 9:30 pm

    You know, speaking of this topic (the actual topic of this post), there are NO national numbers on sex abuse of students committed by teachers. It’s never been studied. The FBI has NEVER gathered the numbers. Congress has never set aside money for a study. Nobody has ever pulled the crime stats.

    I wonder why (*cough*unions*cough*)

    I was able to find one survey from 2000 that pooled from 1600 students and it was disturbing. Scary, scary shit. Hope you don’t have kids in school.

  15. La Pucelle
    August 26th, 2013 @ 10:10 pm

    Nope. If/when I ever do have kids, I am so homeschooling. I’ve been a substitute teacher, so I had the special joy of seeing things from the inside. There are a lot of fantastic, honest, dedicated teachers out there, but the current system is far too much of a Russian roulette where your chances of getting somewhere in the range between — at best — an ignorant and worthless one to a sexual predator are greater than getting a good one. After elementary school it gets even worse. It’s not a chance I’m willing to take.

  16. JeremyR
    August 26th, 2013 @ 10:48 pm

    Our prisons have undergone a revolution. Where once a pervert was as good as dead, it is becoming far too commonplace. Minimum penalty in this case should have been castration. Oh, you want chemical castration? Howzabout Tanerite?
    I am in 100% agreement on this case. With regard to #kate, not as much. The only problem I have with that is the homosexuality issue. Were it a 14 YO girl and a 19 YO boy or a 14 YO boy and a 19YO girl, I would not care. They are kids in school, and in two years, they would be statuatorily legal, when the “supposed” victim reached 16. She after all received close on 2000 texts. If she were a victim rather then a misquided teen, she would have reported it after one. Fourteen is no inocent cherub, they are raging balls of horomone driven fury.and stupidity. 14 is a touch too late to teach morals. You as a parent must do it when they are three, otherwise the schools will birth you a monster like that case.
    We see right here just what the schools supply, don’t we?

  17. tim
    August 26th, 2013 @ 11:07 pm

    Abortion is a gray area in Judaism.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_abortion

  18. history
    August 26th, 2013 @ 11:20 pm

    Not that I’m in favor of child sex, but you guys know that age of consent is a relatively recent concept, and that in several cultures girls were engaged as soon as their periods started (sometimes even earlier), right? That means anyone in history (gay or straight) could have been a pedophile. Everyone knows about Muhammad, but how many know that Mary was married to Joseph during her early teens (and impregnated NOT by him)?

  19. Harry70
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:23 am

    A large number of men who molest boys identify as heterosexual and most have sexual relationships with adult women. Pedophiles generally don’t care which type of genitalia a child has.

  20. Harry70
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:33 am

    Actually it’s been proven that homosexuality develops in the womb.
    http://articles.kspr.com/2013-06-20/higher-testosterone-levels_40103660

  21. PatP
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:41 am

    That happens every day in Japanese schools. In fact, they have a fetish there involving schoolgirl uniforms.

  22. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:50 am

    Show where science has discovered a god.

  23. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:53 am

    Nice try. Neil Whitehead is a member of NARTH, a pseudoscientific fringe group that supports “reparative” therapy. That article is B.S.

  24. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:59 am

    Yet the Bible supports polygamy and incest. Nice little book of family morals you got there.

  25. Harry70
    August 27th, 2013 @ 1:06 am

    Funny, didn’t Pope Francis say not long ago that being gay was no biggie?

  26. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 6:22 am

    As long as one resists the urge to practice homosexuality. Homosexuality is still an unnatural desire.

  27. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 6:23 am

    Cite some REAL science.

  28. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 6:24 am

    Show where it proves He doesn’t exist.

  29. Quartermaster
    August 27th, 2013 @ 10:32 am

    I supports neither. Saying what happened is far different than supporting it. If you had the biblical knowledge you claim, you’d know this. Instead you simply spout ignorantly hoping we’ll low info enough to buy your BS. Sorry about your luck on that score, but you’ve come to the wrong place for that.

  30. Quartermaster
    August 27th, 2013 @ 10:37 am

    The results of the study have never been challenged because there are no grounds to challenge them on. OTOH, you will claim otherwise, but attacking the people who did the study is not the same thing, as you well know.
    The idea of reparative therapy is well founded. Homosexuality is a mental illness and such people can be helped. That does not mean it is easy for the victim of such a serious disorder, but they can be helped.
    OTOH, they have to want to be helped, and it would seem you think that such things are BS because you want them to BS. Once more, that is far different than you having grounds to call them such, and I have yet to see anyone come up with solid grounds to reject. Just a lot of shouting screaming and bawling about the people that would dare make and do studies to test their hypothesis. But, then, Psychology and Psychiatry long ago gave up any credibility on the assertion of science as they have whore their little selves out for PC purposes. The two are pseudosciences and have the status of shamanism.

  31. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:41 am

    We are supposedly more enlightened and knowledgeable than the ancients. We live in the now, with the reality of modern life. Would you like to revert to the life back then? No modern conveniences or medicine? Good luck surviving assclown.

  32. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:43 am

    Support or report? Cite where it supports these things (Chapter and verse) instead of reporting that these things occurred.

  33. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:44 am

    +1 for the “Age of Aquarius” reference.

  34. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:54 am

    D’accord mon cher!

  35. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:56 am

    Then explain to me why we should take the ancient myths of the Bible seriously, oh enlightened xtian.

  36. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:58 am

    The very fact you use the word “myth” indicates your mind is closed and you are only here to troll and cause dissension. Go fuck yourself you hermaphroditic troglodyte.

  37. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 11:59 am

    The Vatican certainly didn’t mind all those child molesting priests who couldn’t resist their urges.

  38. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:09 pm

    It’s well documented that having more than one wife was acceptable for the ancient Hebrews (just look at Solomon) until after the Roman conquest of Israel; polygamy is still practiced in some Jewish communities (like in Yemen). As for incest, how else did Adam and Eve’s children reproduce (if you believe that sort of thing)? By the way, this is what your precious book says about traditional marriage:

  39. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:11 pm

    All those “priests” who violated their vows and the trust of those under their care (less than 0.01% of Priests worldwide, a much lower percentage that teachers) have been and are being prosecuted, removed, defrocked and censured by the Vatican as well as those in the hierarchy who aided and covered-up their crimes. I wish the same could be said for the teachers who do the same (and the school boards that hide these events).
    Humans are sinful and easily fall into error. Our higher, moral selves recognize this and put laws in place to regulate and punish those who commit these acts. The very fact that a certain political philosophy (or ideology) conflates and condemns an entire faith because of bad acts of some members while ignoring a huge number (in relative terms) of the same bad acts by members of their voter base is disingenuous at best.
    Remember, it was the cover-up of criminal acts that was the basis of the Watergate scandal, not the criminal act itself. The Vatican has/is punishing those who facilitated or covered up the criminal acts of sexual misconduct/pedophilia of those “priests” you cite.

  40. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:15 pm

    You haven’t cited chapter and verse, just your interpretation of what is written.
    As for your Youtube link, I don’t even watch the shit that is uploaded (other than music) as it is almost always just some idiots opinion about the subject. Anyone can upload anything to Youtube, proving nothing.

  41. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:17 pm

    NARTH is notorious for twisting and reinterpreting other studies to suit their claims. Reparative therapy is scientifically groundless and potentially dangerous. That’s the reason Exodus International shut down. Even Chris Christie (R) signed a law banning that form of “therapy” for minors.

  42. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:23 pm

    Here’s a long, cited list of questionable family values found in the Bible:

    http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/fv/long.html

  43. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:28 pm

    Nothing is “real” science for xtians (except what suits them)

  44. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:36 pm

    Heh. Apparently except for physics (all flavors) and the basis for all true scientific research. Bullshit “science” with massaged results (cf. climate science) is a specialty of you fellows. Truth is immutable not situational like the progressive left believes.

  45. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:39 pm

    From Merriam Webster:
    Definition of MYTH:
    “a : a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon

    b : parable, allegory ”

    That’s what most of the stories in the Bible are: myths.

  46. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:46 pm

    Again, your opinion. No supporting citations or anything other than your (stupid) opinions.
    Go away troll, come back with some actual, coherent and concise proof of your claims. They are your assertions, prove them.

  47. _abe_
    August 27th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm

    Yes, my opinion, and that of most archaeologists and historians.

    Here are some sources:

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Bible-Unearthed-Archaeologys-Ancient/dp/0684869136

    http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Writing-God-Why-Bibles-Authors/dp/0062012622

    http://www.amazon.com/101-Myths-Bible-Invented-Biblical/dp/1570718423

  48. rmnixondeceased
    August 27th, 2013 @ 1:40 pm

    Heh. Their degrees are not worth the paper they are printed on. All progressives with an agenda.

  49. Wombat_socho
    August 27th, 2013 @ 3:09 pm

    Bored now, bye.

  50. Quartermaster
    August 27th, 2013 @ 5:25 pm

    Once more you display your ignorance of scripture. Men were not to “multiply wives” or take more than one wife. God tolerated it, but the warnings that God gave about it came to pass in the life of Jacob, David and Solomon. God’s model was that demonstrated in the garden, one man and one woman for life.